These have up to 40 platform PCIe 3.0 lanes for system expandability on graphics, storage and I/O and are supported with new Intel Z370 chipset-based motherboards.

Intel promises frame rate improvements of up to 25% compared with 7th Gen Intel Core and up to 65% faster editing in content creation compared with a 3-year-old machine.

These have Intel Turbo Boost 2.0 technology, Intel Hyper-Threading technology, DDR4 RAM memory technology support, which allows systems to have up to 64 GB of memory and up to 2666 MT/s memory transfer speeds, ability to set an overclocked ratio per core with unlocked processors, when paired with select chipset SKUs, to provide you more control and more granularity for overclocking.

Processor

i7-8700K

i7-8700

i5-8600K

i5-8400

i3-8350K

i3-8100

Base clock speed (Ghz)

3.7

3.2

3.6

2.8

4

3.6

Intel Turbo BoostTechnology 2.0maximumsingle core turbofrequency(GHz)

4.7

4.6

4.3

4

N/A

N/A

Cores /Threads

6/12

6/12

6/6

6/6

4/4

4/4

ThermalDesignPower

95

65

95

65

91

65

Unlocked

Yes

No

Yes

No

Yes

No

Intel SmartCache

12MB

12MB

9MB

9MB

6MB

6MB

Intel UHD Graphics

630

Graphics Dynamic Frequency (MHz)

Up to 1200

Up to 1150

MemorySupport

Two channels DDR4-26662

Two channels DDR4-2400

RCPPricing

$359

$303

$257

$182

$168

$117

The 8th Gen Intel Core desktop processors will be available beginning October 5, 2017 starting at $117 (Rs. 7,600 approx.) and goes up to $359 (Rs. 23,335 approx.) for the high-end i7-8700K.